Marketing and Communications/Brand and Marketing Services 

Reference no. 1740/1016A

• Be valued for your exceptional knowledge and experience as a web developer
• Opportunity to develop and deploy feature-rich websites and digital solutions
• Full-time continuing

About the opportunity 

Marketing and Communications is a professional service unit responsible for communicating the University’s values and messages in ways that target audiences – including prospective students, current students, staff, alumni, donors and external influencers – notice and understand, and which prompt them to action.

About the role

The Senior Web and Digital Developer plays a leadership role in developing and deploying feature-rich websites and digital solutions that meet business requirements and end-user needs.

Position duties include:

• developing, implementing and deploying complex and feature-rich websites and new digital solutions
• developing user interfaces and user interface components
• supporting and maintaining existing websites and digital applications
• writing technical documentation for websites and digital applications developed.

About you

The University values courage and creativity; openness and engagement; inclusion and diversity; and respect and integrity. As such, we see the importance in recruiting talent aligned to these values in the pursuit of research excellence. We are looking for a Senior Web and Digital Developer who possesses: 

• experience as a web developer designing, developing, testing, documenting and deploying websites and digital applications
• experience developing object-oriented Javascript, particularly using intermediate languages
• experience, developing and interfacing with server-side data APIs to produce dynamic and rich end-user web applications
• Understanding of cloud hosting environments such as AWS
• ability to work in a complex and challenging environment.

About us

Since our inception 160 years ago, the University of Sydney has led to improve the world around us. We believe in education for all and that effective leadership makes lives better. These same values are reflected in our approach to diversity and inclusion, and underpin our long-term strategy for growth. We’re Australia's first university and have an outstanding global reputation for academic and research excellence. Across 9 campuses, we employ over 7600 academic and non-academic staff who support over 47,000 students.

We are undergoing significant transformative change which brings opportunity for innovation, progressive thinking, breaking with convention, challenging the status quo, and improving the world around us. 

For more information on the position and University, please view the candidate information pack available from the job’s listing on the University of Sydney careers website. 

All applications must be submitted via the University of Sydney careers website.  Visit sydney.edu.au/recruitment and search by the reference number to apply.

Closing date: 11:30pm 5 March 2017

The University of Sydney is committed to diversity and social inclusion. Applications from people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds; equity target groups including women, people with disabilities, people who identify as LGBTIQ; and people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, are encouraged. 

If we think your skills are needed in other areas of the University, we will be sure to contact you about other opportunities. 

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